Researchers discover a blood test for suicide risk
A single human gene seems to indicate whether a patient has an elevated risk for suicide
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Kate Lunau
Kate Lunau is a health and science writer at Maclean’s Magazine, who previously reported for the Montreal Gazette. She’s the recipient of several journalism awards, including the 2014 Yves Fortier Earth Science Journalism Award, and has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards. Like Elon Musk, she hopes to retire on Mars.
After the apocalypse
Edan Lepucki’s California, though it got a boost from Stephen Colbert, doesn’t leave enough to the imagination
New HIV strategy sets hopeful goal, amid grief of flight MH17 losses
In the shadow of the deaths of conference delegates, new strategies for combatting AIDS are debated
The little girl who may hold the secret to aging
From 2014: Mackenzee Wittke, a five-year-old Alberta girl with the body of an infant, might just hold the genetic key to how we age
Scientists build a pacemaker from the heart’s own cells
Study ’heralds a new era of gene therapy’ says author
Listen to the ‘heartbeats’ of baby stars
’These stars are literally ringing, like giant gaseous bells’
Bringing mindfulness to the school curriculum
More and more kids across Canada are learning meditation techniques. Not everyone thinks it’s a good use of time.
B.C. starfish are dissolving into goo, and no one knows why
Scientists are baffled: “We have no clue what’s causing this,” says one marine biologist
Why vital statistics are a matter of birth and death
’We don’t know who’s dying, or why they die,’ Melinda Gates says
What I can tell you from the maternal and child health summit
... not much, thanks to the Prime Minister’s Office